The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.
Features volcano watches in Iceland from 1984-91, showing the country's highlands, Askja, Kverkjoll,...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest miss...

Every summer on Palermo's Mondello beach, over 1,000 cabins are built in preparation of the Ferragos...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...